New Guidelines for Determining Brain Death – But Will Hospitals Actually Follow Them?
…is being evaluated for brain death is obviously in dire straits. It’s highly unlikely that many would survive the removal of life support, even if they were capable of recovery – and obviously those who might have gotten falsely diagnosed as “brain dead” who were organ donors had no chance to recover at all. Which brings me to the second issue. In 2008, 21-year-old Zack Dunlap was determined to be brain dead in an Oklahoma hospital following an A…